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  <name><![CDATA[Sharon Kay Penman]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Penman received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, she majored in history, and also received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Rutgers University School of Law, and later worked as a tax lawyer. Penman suffered from an eighteen month bout with mononucleosis.

The Sunne in Splendour, a novel about Richard III of England is one of the most popular books on the Historical Novel Society's list of best historical novels. In 1996, following the success of When Christ and His Saints Slept (which dealt with the Anarchy and the early career of King Henry II of England), Penman ventured into the historical whodunnit with four mysteries set in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine during the reign of Richard I. The mysteries did not enjoy the same success as her &quot;straight&quot; historical novels, to which she returned in 2002, with Time and Chance, again covering the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II. In 2008, she published Devil's Brood, the final book in her trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and she is currently at work on a novel about their son, Richard Coeur de Lion, titled Lionheart.
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  <title><![CDATA[Here be Dragons (Welsh Princes, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sunne in Splendour]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Falls the Shadow  (Welsh Princes, Book 2)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[When Christ and His Saints Slept (Eleanor of Aquitane, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Reckoning  (Welsh Princes, Book 3)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sharon Kay Penman]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Time and Chance (Eleanor of Aquitane, Book 2)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Queen's Man: A Medieval Mystery (Justin de Quincey, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cruel as the Grave  (Justin de Quincey, Book 2)]]></title>
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  <published>1998</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dragon's Lair (Justin de Quincey, Book 3)]]></title>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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